Seminars

A list of seminars and webinars of relevance to researchers in infectious diseases. Joining links will be updated as they are made available.

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar - Future evolution and conservation of small and isolated populations of tigers

When: Wednesday 2 April 2025

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Uma Ramakrishnan (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)

Host: Katja Guschanski

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - Systemic and local control of monocyte-derived cells in health and Crohn’s disease

When: Wednesday 16 April 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Andrew Stagg, Queen Mary University

Host: Tovah Shaw

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar - Aspergillus, asthma and the airway: Why do fungi trigger inflammatory lung diseases?

When: Wednesday 23 April 2025

Time: 2:15pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Peter Cook, University of Exeter

Host: Andrew MacDonald

Easter Bush Research seminar series - Everything changes and nothing stands still (Heraclitus): using sequences to map foot-and-mouth disease virus

When: Wednesday 23 April 2025

Time: 13:30pm

Venue: Roslin Auditorium, Roslin Institute

Speaker: Dr Don King, Pribright Institute

Host: Mark Bronsvoort

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 30 April 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Rick Maizels, University of Glasgow

Host: Amy Buck

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 7 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Pierre Maillard, Queen Mary London

Host: Sara Macias 

Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society seminar - Selective fencing at Denmark’s biological, geopolitical, and genomic borders

When: Thursday 15 May 2025

Time: 13:30

Online: Email Lorna Thompson for joining link

Speaker: Mette Nordahl Svendsen, University of Copenhagen 

Insitute of Ecology and Evolution seminar -

When: Wednesday 21 May 2025

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs and Online via Zoom (Passcode: IEESem22)

Speaker: Diego Cortez Quezada (UNAM, Mexico)

Host: Katja Guschanski

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 21 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Molly Ingersoll, Institut Pasteur

Host: Jenny Regan

Easter Bush Research seminar series - The Atlantic salmon gut microbiome and its connection to host physiology and genetics

When: Wednesday 21 May 2025

Time: 13:30pm

Venue: Roslin Auditorium, Roslin Institute

Speaker: Professor Simen Sandve, NMBU

Host: Dan Macqueen

Institute for Immunology and Infection Research Seminar -

When: Wednesday 28 May 2025

Time: 1pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3, Ashworth Labs

Speaker: Susanne Kramer, University of Würzburg

Host: Achim Schnaufer

Easter Bush Research seminar series - The Atlantic salmon gut microbiome and its connection to host physiology and genetics

When: Wednesday 4 June 2025

Time: 13:30pm

Venue: Roslin Auditorium, Roslin Institute

Speaker: Professor Steffen Scholpp, University of Exeter

Host: Joe Rainger

Edinburgh Immunology Group quarterly symposia

When: Thursday 17 June 2025

Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30pm

Venue: IRR South Seminar Room (1.05)

Speaker:

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